Thursday, April 15, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Neil Armstrong Blasts Obama - 'President Barack Obama's plans for NASA could be "devastating" to the U.S. human space flight program and "destines our nation to become one of second- or even third-rate stature," three legendary American astronauts said Tuesday. Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon. Jim Lovell was the commander of the famous Apollo 13 flight - an aborted moon mission. And Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan remains the last human to walk on the lunar surface. Armstrong, who rarely makes public comments, grew up in Wapakoneta, Ohio, and now lives in Indian Hill. In a statement e-mailed to longtime NBC space correspondent Jay Barbree of Merritt Island, all three took exception with Obama's plan to cancel NASA's return-to-the-moon program, dubbed Project Constellation...'
